Mr Garside was called to the Bar in 1971 and took Silk in 1993. He is a member of the Northern Circuit and became a Recorder in 1994.
As a junior his practice concentrated on criminal, common law and employment work combined with public law cases when instructed by Local Authorities. He was instructed in leading cases concerned with jury vetting (R v Mason), trade union rights (Messenger Newspaper Group v NGA) and the 'poll tax' (Evans v South Ribble Borough Council) when he advised on the legal aspects of the scheme used by Manchester City Council to collect money owed. He has conducted many heavy criminal cases up to and including murders without a leader. In addition he has also been instructed in trading standards cases for local authorities and acted for other public bodies in criminal cases.
Since taking silk he has mainly been engaged in criminal work while retaining an active practice in the employment and common law fields. He has been instructed in major trials including gang related murders with a particular emphasis on mortgage frauds. He has defended in major drugs cases including Customs and Excise v Kassar and others at Newcastle Crown Court where he represented the lead defendant in what was at the time the largest importation case prosecuted by HM Customs and Excise. He has been involved in many other complicated and sensitive matters including the defence of a Solicitor for commercial drug dealing.
Mr Garside has lectured on various themes including Human Rights.
As junior counsel Mr Garside practised in Industrial Tribunals and in the civil courts. He has appeared on many occasions in cases involving unfair and wrongful dismissal and allegations of discrimination. He has also had extensive experience in cases involving restraint of trade and restrictive covenants and industrial disputes, including Messenger Group Newspapers Limited v NGA.
Since taking Silk he has continued to practise in these areas and has also become involved in criminal cases involving commercial fraud and other criminal misconduct by employees.
Mr Garside retains an expertise in personal injury litigation within a busy common law practice.
Before taking Silk in 1993 he appeared regularly in all types of personal injury litigation especially injuries arising out of substantial road traffic accidents. He has advised on all issues arising out of road traffic injuries including those resulting in spinal disability, psychiatric injury and brain damage. A major part of his practice has always included acting for Trades Union backed clients and he has great experience in pleading and advising in the field of factory accidents.
Since taking Silk, Mr Garside has retained a personal injury practice and his cases include clinical negligence actions and other actions against professionals, including solicitors.
Mr Garside's practice has always included a high profile client base and of particular note he has represented national television companies and newspaper groups in major High Court actions.
More generally, he lectures to the Greater Manchester Police force on the relationship between the Bar and the police. Acting on behalf of local authorities he played a major part in shaping the law on the poll tax legislation and on Sunday Trading issues. He has experience in Public Law, in particular Judicial Review applications.
Mr Garside is prepared to undertake work on a Conditional Fee basis and welcomes early consultation with his solicitor clients in such cases.
"A walking encyclopedia of legal knowledge."
"Simply an excellent choice for serious criminal cases."
"Unflappable Charles Garside QC has worked on a number of high profile crime trials in recent years." Listed as a "Leading Silk".
"Mr Garside is regularly instructed in major trials, including gang-related murders, drugs and mortgage frauds"


I'm just back from the Los Angeles CHA Winter show. It was my first time in LA, and because the trip was so quick, I still don't feel like I've truly been to LA. I spent all of my time in the 3-block radius between the hotel and the LA Convention Center. However, the weather was lovely (70 degrees and sunny!), so it wasn't a bad 3-block radius to live in for two days.
No real sightseeing, only this stretch of road. But there were palm trees and sun, and no snow!
1. Sleep is wonderful. When I finally got into LA on Friday afternoon, I was jet-lagged and on fumes, having barely slept the night before. I managed to check in at the show to get my pass, take a short walk, and order takeout to eat in my room before I crashed at 7 p.m. I slept—uninterrupted—for 11 hours. I don't know the last time I've slept 11 hours. Probably in 2007. Being well-rested really is a gift.
2. It's good to get out of the house. I used to be pretty social, but I'm finding that I spend more and more time cooped up in my office these days. Getting out among people is good for both my mental health and my confidence. I think a lot of writers suffer from the "no one gives a fig about what I write or pays any attention to what I do." But I got so many compliments on Sew Retro at the show—people stopping by the publisher's booth just to say hit to me. To ME! One woman even said that she saw me on TV (on the web)—that little local morning show I did a few months ago and then uploaded to my site. Which of course I figured no one watched.
3. Two-year-olds sound so sweet on the phone. You can't imagine that they would ever do anything bad when you're gone, like steal their baby sister's paci and hide it in the laundry room.
4. It is, in fact, possible to pump in the bathroom of an airplane while cruising at 30,000 feet. I can't even believe I had to do this, but it was either that or hours of misery. Luckily, a sweet flight attendant hooked me up with an "out of order" sign on one of the bathrooms while I did it.
5. I love meeting new people. Sit me down next to someone with an interesting job or a fascinating background, and I'm in heaven (coincidentally, this drives my husband crazy—whenever we go anywhere, he always hopes we wind up sitting next to boring people so he doesn't have to hear me ask an endless series of questions). I met other authors and editors from Craftside's various imprints, and learned all kinds of interesting things—from what it's like to work in Hollywood to what it's like to be a woman from India who loves and respects her culture, but doesn't want to follow the traditional path set out for her. Grown-up conversations with interesting people are the best way to re-set my mood and pull me out of whatever funk I'm in. And if they happen to be set against the backdrop of LA sun, all the better!
More on the coolest booths and most interesting trends coming soon . . .


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Korean indie band Nell released the live version of their song Cliff Parade.
At the moment it is a bit unclear if this is the next single from their album Slip Away. If anything, this is one heck of a track.


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Economic Armageddon?
There were two news articles of interest, both with some points to ponder.
Here is information from the first:
Economic Armageddon
A book warns 9/11 was a precursor to collapse of the world's fiscal superpowers, famine, plague and WWIII
Toronto Sun – Feb 24, 2008
Warning: Today's column is not for the faint of heart.
And before my critics say it, let me say it first: Leatherdale's gone off the rails on a crazy train.
This is opinion, but my gut says feverish doomsayers may be right. This is the beginning of the end of our economic system. And if we do self-destruct, we only have ourselves and our blatant greed to blame.
Believers in a higher power call this Armageddonand the last war man will fight. One such guru, Ronald Weinland, in his book 2008: God's Final Word, warns of the demise of the United States — where the first blow was struck with 9-11 and now a subprime mortgage bloodbath is shattering the pillars of capitalism with a tidal wave devastating economies around the globe.
Many, I'm sure, will label Weinland a religious whacko with his predictions of natural disasters that'll make Hurricane Katrina look like a spring shower; severe weather patterns leading to famine and food shortages; plagues that will kill man, beast and bird; more terrorist attacks and the collapse of the world's economic superpower. All of this, he predicts, leads to World War III and a deadly battle between the now powerful Europe's economic union and China and its allies.
In the end, "Every economy will be decimated," he writes. Even Canada's.
And in just three and half years, 6 billion people will die. Yikes.
Warnings from others aren't quite as dire...
Now, critics complain that as head of the world's largest central bank Greenspan should have seen the subprime mortgage meltdown coming. He didn't, and now millions face losing their homes, and perhaps life savings as banks teeter on bankruptcy.
In the U.K., for example, the British government was forced to step in and take over Northern Rock Bank, after the troubled mortgage lender revealed severe funding problems over its exposure to the U.S. subprime crisis. It wasn't long before panicked depositors were lining up at branches in the first run on a bank in more than a decade. British taxpayers are now on the hook for $108 billion US in loans.
Rumours now swirl that two major U.S. banks are in big trouble and will fail within weeks. That's after financial institutions were forced to take writedowns worth more than $150 billion US, while central bankers around the globe crank up the money-making machine to keep financial institutions afloat.
Even billionaire Warren Buffett, known as the Sage of Omaha for his investing Midas touch, has been critical: "It's sort of poetic justice, in that the people that brewed this toxic Kool-Aid found themselves drinking a lot of it in the end," he said. http://torontosun.com/Money/2008/02/24/4872237-sun.html
This is the first time that I have seen references to Ronald Weinland in the news for some time–but suspect there will be many more in the next two months (especially because of other comments and dates from him, more information is in the articles Ronald Weinland: Nuclear Attack May be Mid-April 2008 and Concerns About Ronald Weinland's Church of God-Preparing for the Kingdom of God).
However, while the stages are being set for the real "Armageddon" it is not yet now (some additional details are also in the news item At Least Two Wrongly Claim Great Tribulation Will Begin in 2008).
Actually the title of the next article, in my opinion, pretty much says it all:
Market meltdown: Apocalypse not now
The horror that stalked global stock exchanges as the week opened has been replaced by relief, but the threat to the world as we know it remains
Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-features/market-meltdown-apocalypse-not-now-774524.html
The above article mentions issues in the US, India, and Europe as having various issues which can still cause financial collapse.
Anyway, the end will come relatively soon, but it will not be in 2008.
More on certain steps that need to occur is included in the article Who is the King of the North?
This entry was posted on Monday, February 25th, 2008 at 7:06 am	and is filed under COG News, Prophecy.
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Most of the society's critical infrastructure and key processes in companies and organizations are controlled by computer systems, which makes such systems a natural target for attacks, often for the reasons of industrial espionage, damaging, or intelligence gathering by nation-state actors.
In digital public services, cyber attacks threaten the privacy of clients' sensitive information, and can cause potentially fatal consequences if the data are altered or removed, e.g., in health care systems. In energy sector, failures in a control or monitoring system can lead to high financial losses and prevent operations of other dependent services, including safety-critical ones, and in the worst-case scenario can paralyze the whole critical infrastructure. Successful attacks on mobile networks will lead to similarly dire consequences.
Cyber Trust program studied key threats across societies and economies, designed effective methods and tools for detecting and countering threats. The program also validated these methods and tools via modern security assurance techniques and practical testing. Forensic analysis and incident response were used in security and privacy assurance of information systems and components, including open source ones, and support of personnel in operating protections systems and dealing with security incidents. Program explored new approaches for detecting targeted attacks within the privacy framework set by local legislation, through collaboration between experts in handling security incidents and experts in network security.
Targeted attacks are attacks against specific companies or industry sectors and governments, often for the reasons of industrial espionage, damaging critical infrastructure (for instance, mobile networks and IT infrastructure of organizations), or intelligence gathering by nation-state actors.
Recently, customers have become very interested in this topic and the participating companies and institutions regard the topic of targeted attacks as a business critical area for their future security service offerings, and this project is targeted to improve significantly the expertise, detection, and mitigation effectiveness against targeted attacks.
Today most detection approaches focus on general malware. Malware detection is often based on signatures, static analysis, and simple behavior-related rules. The program aimed at significant improvements in the capabilities of detecting, reacting to, and preventing targeted attacks, which typically have more complex attack patterns than conventional ones, including, for instance, sophisticated logic of attack escalation. Real attacks were analyzed and malicious objects used in those. Based on that improved understanding, one can construct "behavioral signatures" of attacks that can be used for their effective identification. Open interfaces to the analysis systems were provided and tools were created to aid in the incident response operations. This will also help organizations recover from intrusions faster and more effectively.
A number of Cyber Trust partners, including F-Secure, joined European Organization for Cybersecurity (ECSO). They contributed such efforts as the SRIA preparation for the Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2018-2020.
Collaboration with National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC)) was coordinated via Cyber Trust. As a result the new S2ERC site was established in Finland. The Security and Software Engineering Research Center (S2ERC) has been operating since 2010. The Finnish cyber security and software engineering research site is open for all Finnish universities and research institutes and it will physically be based on the University of Oulu. Number of Cyber Trust partnerships are expected to continue within S2ERC, for instance, between University of Turku and F-Secure.
F-Secure studied approaches and technologies for detecting advanced attacks on organizational systems and networks. This led a foundation for Rapid Detection Service (RDS). The key partners were University of Turku and nSense.
This service was related to the threat Intelligence work. F-Secure regularly publishes threat reports and analysis of specific attacks, attacker techniques and tactics, which brought insights for developing RDS. In particular, that led to establishing a working relationship with ENISA (the close partners were Nokia, nSense, and Ericsson). The research and exploration of techniques for collecting and pre-processing relevant data from endpoints and of methods for detecting attacks via the collected data contributed significantly into RDS success. There is a great business opportunity for the service and the technology. The RDS pilot, which enabled University of Turku to work with F-Secure on data analysis approaches, was an important learning experience and helped F-Secure to prepare better for various challenges related to such activities.
The RDS-related collaboration with the researchers of University of Turku brought valuable data sets for attack detection analytics. The aim was to introspect live events coming from various programs running on top of an operating system. The introspection targeted profiling and then attaching normal features to either programs or program users. The aim of the work was to develop machine learning based advanced methods to find signs of unnatural, malicious behaviour. Researchers collected for 6 months operative RDS data, and the analysis of it. They developed advanced recognition methods. The continuous analysis of a stream of program events is a completely novel approach into enhancing software security. Researchers have about 1 Terabyte of RDS data collected and its analysis & malicious activity recognition method was developed.
Research for the new sandboxing environment supported F-Secures's Incident Response and Threat Intelligence work. The task was to extract behavioral features for identifying malicious and unwanted files and web resources. This led to further collaboration plans with University of Turku in the framework of S2ERC. Major parts of the Sandboxed Execution Environment (SEE) was open-sourced and access to it was provided for Cyber Trust partners. There are clear opportunities for the technology in the corporate security business. Open sourcing of F-Secure's sandboxing technologies led to interesting plans of academic research both within and outside of Cyber Trust. Access to F-Secure's threat intelligence backends enabled several program partners to validate results of their research work.
Research, development, and adoption of fuzz testing techniques were done in collaboration with Oulu University Secure Programming Group (OUSPG). OUSPG's work on cloud-based coverage-aided fuzz testing is state-of-the-art worldwide. It compares the tools used widely in the industry, such as Assessment for Learning (AFL), but uses more advanced techniques for mutation. This reduces test performance somewhat, but the researchers showed that the techniques used are able to find problems other tools are not able to easily find. Furthermore, researchers scaled the approach in the cloud. Purpose of fuzzing is to automatically generate lots of test input and to make code crash and increase code coverage. The collaboration on fuzzing resulted in an open-source project (libfuzzerfication) and consistent efforts for applying fuzz testing in F-Secure's R&D as a part of the standard software development process. LibFuzzer is a library for in-process, coverage-guided evolutionary fuzzing of other libraries.
F-Secure KEY is a credentials management software. During the program security-related functionality of the product was analyzed and studies of actual customer needs and preferences and ways of communicating the product features to the customers were made. The primary researchers were from Aalto University, University of Jyväskylä, and Tampere University of Technology. They contributed on the both security and user experience sides, supporting in addressing technical challenges, in understanding user problems and preferences, and in identifying ways to position F-Secure KEY for direct users and telecommunication operator partners.
F-Secure is exploring how to turn the technology into a corporate offering and how to sell it via its network of ISP and mobile operators. F-Secure is also shaping business plans for services based on threat intelligence and sandboxing and observing healthy demand from security-conscious corporate customers.
SOMEA research group at the University of Jyväskylä was primed to inform methods and software for social media monitoring and analysis. The group was interested in finding new collaboration possibilities, and supporting the existing research activities regarding application of social media analysis methods to detection of fake identities, and understanding the role of false identities at early stages of targeted attacks.
Over the past two decades, online social media resources have experienced a rapid growth. Now nearly 70% of adults in developed countries have a social media accounts. Most online social media sites bypass the verification of new users' identity in favour of ease of access, thus opening a door to such fake identity-enabled activities as spamming, phishing, and trolling. Together with F-Secure and nSense the research group performed repeated crawls of metadata of 200.000 newly registered users at social media site VK.com. The crawling lasted nearly 1 month, and the goal was to collect and analyze activity of these accounts over large period of time, detect anomalies in their behavior (such as rapid growth of friend list), and analyze URLs presented at these accounts using API provided by F-Secure.
A denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is an attack where a machine or network resource is made unavailable by disrupting services of a host connected to the internet. Security specialist Silke Holtmanns from Bell Labs Nokia and other researchers from her group studied how hackers can conduct DoS attacks on 4G cellular devices around the world. Holtmanns presented the results of the research at the Black Hat conference in November 2016.
Holtmanns presented different DoS attacks that can affect any platform or device on mobile LTE (Long-Term Evolution) networks: mobile phones, tablets, and devices connected to the IoT. These attacks can disconnect mobile phone users from their network.
Although the new technique and new communication generation with 4G/LTE is believed to provide better world, we need to be awake. LTE with DIAMETER has similar functionality as earlier technique (SS7). The security researchers have provided clear results that we will face similar interconnection weaknesses with LTE/DIAMETER as SS7 if network do not take protection measures.
Ever since the public revelation of global surveillance and the exploits targeting the mobile communication backend, the general awareness of security and privacy in telecommunication industry has increased. Misusing the technical features of mobile core network technology – specifically the Signaling System 7 (SS7) – has disclosed numerous ways to locate, track and manipulate the routine cellular activities of cellphone users. In fact, the SMS-based key recovery mechanism is becoming vulnerable because of the SS7 vulnerabilities.
Many mobile network operators rush to upgrade their networks to 4G/LTE from 2G and 3G, not only to improve the service, but also the security. With relatively more security and privacy features, Diameter protocol – the successor of SS7 in Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks are believed to guarantee more protection to the network itself and to the end-users. However, Diameter inherits many functionalities and traits of the SS7 network and attention need to be paid to proper security measures like filtering. Therefore, some attacks are also possible there e.g. location tracking in LTE by abusing the Diameter-based interconnection.
The US government was supported by Nokia on drafting security protections for mobile networks (Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Homeland Security). Nokia also supported the Nordic regulators on the evolution of mobile network security. Nokia had further thesis e.g. on machine learning, trusted NFV and related topics.
Nokia and Finland are seen as a worldwide leading trusted expertise center for advanced attacks and protections of mobile networks. This recognition has resulted in many customer requests and orders, which in turn bring capital also to Finland. With the help of Cyber Trust program Nokia was able to pool the critical resources to have the leading edge in the area of advanced attacks. Nokia shared this information freely between the partners, to enhance the Finnish expertise level. Specifically, Cyber Trust program has given Nokia the possibility of creating a demo testbed (with robotic arm, virtual reality control, and 5G connectivity) which will serve as a great demonstration platform for most of the work done in the program.
In order to possibly purchase a Security Operations Center (SOC) service, Jyväskylän energia surveyed the existing services and service providers. Jyväskylän energia also surveyed the data protection audit providers in order to start preparing for the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It replaces the Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC and was designed to harmonize data privacy laws across Europe, to protect and empower all EU citizens data privacy and to reshape the way organizations across the region approach data privacy.
Jyväskylän energia and University of Jyväskylä analyzed cyber security management, situational awareness and resiliency. Pardco Group provided an environment for the research regarding honeypot utilization for analyzing cyber attacks.
University of Turku committed surveys to establish fake entity proposals from scientific literature, malware's anti-honeypot and introspection methods, and current sandboxing implementations. Researchers implemented a diversified honeypot which operated at the system call level and created an experimental honeypot proxy framework for deceiving attackers with fabricated content. Finally, they conducted a survey of application-level sandboxing technologies. The survey analyzed notable sandboxing solutions with a focus on the mechanisms enabling application containment. Additionally, researchers aimed to identify key trends in this area of research. As the diversified interface is only known by the trusted binaries, calls outside this interface clearly revealed non-trusted, suspicious or malicious binaries. The proof-of-concept showed this method to be practical for implementing honeypots for real-world systems.
Researchers of University of Turku made a survey to identify trends and objectives of using TPM (Trusted Platform Module) in the cloud, proposed and implemented a vTPM (virtual TPM) architecture for enabling TPM in container-based virtualizations, and created a secure live migration protocol for VMs (Virtual Machine). Majority of the research focused on security of traditional hypervisor-based virtualization. The research made notable efforts to bridge these solutions to container-based systems and thus, through vTPM research and other commitments, advanced security solutions in the area.
A literature review was made to discover evidence about contemporary use of agile development methods in contexts wherein software security regulations apply, provided a theoretical framework for assessing the interoperability of agile and secure software development activities, and created a secure modification of an agile software development method. The review on prior application of agile methods for security constrained software development accumulated a notable amount of evidence which indicated that agility and security were not mutually exclusive aspects of software development. Further, reserachers demonstrated a generalizable proof-of-concept case study of developing a secure system with agile means.
Researchers of University of Turku provided a post-mortem of the popularity and distribution of malware files in the contemporary web-facing internet (F-Secure's Riddler data), analyzed name server IP address importance for the forensics related to DNS-targeting (Domain Name System) malware, and provided design guidelines for simple network resolvers for DNS mining. Many of the efforts committed in this topic area resulted in a rather exhaustive model of the commonly available web. The modelling has also collected data on the routes and behaviour of a plethora of malware operating in the captured web. This allowed to acknowledge several limits and discrepancies of the infrastructure; especially of the DNS. Consequently, the research allowed to design and propose appropriate security enhancements.
Exploring the Use of Deprecated PHP Releases in the Wild Internet: Still a LAMP Issue?


With Middlesbrough's return to the Premier League their matches this season are screened around the world, making a good relationship with the global media vital.
The club's Head of Communications, Paul Dews, gave premierleague.com insight into his role on a matchday, having to liaise media for Boro's manager and players, both before and after the action.
"I've never been good enough to play professional football so I'm as close to it as you can be in the job that I do," Dews says.
"I love the job that I do, I'm lucky to do the job that I do. The phone's never off, it's 24/7 seven days a week, but it's great."


Hi Michael and thanks for coming online! For the other readers: Yes, the Greek words are one way to authenticate the Stephen material. For me, not having been part of the Stephen circle itself and coming quite recently to the material (about ten years ago), I actually find the Greek stuff less persuasive than the content of the communications themselves. I guess I tend to 'authenticate' channelled works by how they 'feel' internally: specifically, do they seem to be communicating a spirit of love and openness and is what they say compatible with reason and with my previous beliefs.
In the transcripts I've read, Stephen asks his listeners several times to check what he says and not necessarily take it all on trust. I've seen similar warnings in other channelled works that I respect and I think it's sound advice. My personal take on this is twofold: one, that mediumship can be a 'noisy channel' and that the medium might pick up multiple communicators, and some ideas might not come through correctly. And two, there may be deceptive or confused spirits out there - just as there are deceptive and confused politicians and bloggers and newscasters all over the Internet - who can 'parrot' nice-sounding phrases they've heard from better sources, but themselves may not even understand the material they're quoting, or may be deliberately trying to just get power over others.
So I guess I tend to 'authenticate' channelled works at a fairly fine-grained level - much the same as I do any human writer. Just because I trust something on one page or in one book doesn't necessarily mean I'll trust everything ever written by that person. I try to keep these works a little at 'arms length' - because there often seems to be quite a strong 'energy' behind the words in a channelled work and sometimes the strength of that energy worries me a bit. Eg some of these works feel quite 'compelling', in an odd way, and I'm not always sure that I want to be compelled, even if it's true.
But my impression is that, on the whole, Stephen mostly seems to come across like a nice person and one who has a philosophy of life that I like, and a lot of what he says, and it seems to cross-reference with a few other channelled communicators and NDE experiencers and practicing psychics in a way that - to me - cross-authenticates some of them. At least in the sense that I can say 'this appears to be a coherent philosophy shared by multiple people that's quite unique and yet seems to provide a useful way of looking at the world - and one that doesn't seem to separate me from others'.
And of course I look at the result in people's lives. And in my case I can say that Michael has been a good friend to me and the impact of his association with Stephen seems to have been, on the whole, positive.
I really enjoyed this episode of Skeptiko, I think my late husband would have had a lot in common with Michael. He was also an Anglican priest but having had a near death experience had a very open mind. I am going to explore Michael's writing. One thing I wasn't sure about, did Michael regret joining Subud?
No I certainly dont regret it. It was before I got to be talking to Stephen, and I was experiencing a deep urge to drop defences to whatever God might be, in an environment where others were wanting to do the same, and to do this without references to holy books, religious teachings and doctrines. Members "received" spiritual guidance and "check-received" with each other. I had already been doing this for some years previously, where I would type questioons to 'God" and listen for answers giving references usually to books I hadnt read. I accumulated several volumes of such questions and answers, and had been accepted as a DD candidate making a study of the phenomenon... but then the conversations with Stephen began.
Oh, here's Zodiac! Not a book but online. I feel that he's very similar to Stephen in the content of his messages. The medium was Winifred Moyes, from 1921-1957.
The earthly name of Zodiac has not been disclosed, but he has always described himself as "a humble servant of the Master". He chose the name Zodiac in order to lift up our thoughts from the earth to the heavens. Zodiac has revealed that he was the unnamed scribe, mentioned in St. Mark's Gospel (12, 28-34), who asked Jesus: Which is the first commandment of all?" The answer which was given expresses the essence of religion: Thou shalt love God with all thy being, and thy neighbour as thyself.
"Experienced though I might have been regarding the Word of God - of the Lord Jehovah, there were times when, in sadness of spirit, I asked myself whether I should ever see God - whether indeed such a One existed. The Voice of God had been lost in an incredible amount of furniture, of embellishment, of misrepresentation, which had come from the minds of those who were appointed to teach.
"I want you to try and get some conception of the effect of traditional thought, of theories, of dogma and doctrine, which had been handed down from generation to generation. The Word had been added to and suffocated by the trappings which man, in his pride, thought necessary to support the Truth as given by God.
"Then, out of the night of complicated thinking, out of the greyness of the dissatisfaction which was within, out of my blunted life I stepped - for Christ came! Christ came and brought me the Light which never fades, brought me the Love which no words can tell. I watched Him. I studied Him. I was used to judging human nature in all its forms; and as I watched I marvelled, and as I listened - how I loved!
"This is the whole explanation of my mission upon earth - the Mission which has been entrusted to me: - I saw Christ and He made me free. When Christ came into my life it seemed to me that never before had I lived, had I thought, had I seen, had I heard. My life grew strangely impersonal - yes! I want you to understand that once the Truth had been made my own, the details of life, or what it had to offer, or what it took away, were as nothing to me - nothing to those who loved Him as He only could be loved".
Zodiac's own partisanship of the new Prophet, who was attracting so much attention, was regarded a s a serious crime by the Chief Priests and Elders; moreover, he had openly belittled to time honoured custom of burnt offerings and sacrifices. The result was inevitable! No longer was he a venerated teacher in the Temple; his symbols of office were torn from him, and he was turned into the streets as an outcast.
I think Zodiac and Stephen share a lot in common in their philosophy and teachings. But there's another communicator also claiming to be one of Jesus' disciples who I have in a paper book, again very similar in content and character. Also from that early-1900s Christian Spiritualism scene I think. I'll add it when I can locate it.
Winifred Moyes and (Thomas Ashman and others) is one of the reasons why I feel there is a considerable overlap between Christian Spiritualism and Pentecostalism - both movements began around the same time, the mid-19th through early 20th century - but sadly they've become bitterly divided. Pentecostalism ended up getting lots of money and political power and also decided that while speaking in tongues and healing were "good", trance channelling and automatic writing were "evil". An arbitrary distinction, I think, but one that's a very real mental barrier to many church members today.
Anyway, I mention Zodiac to show that Stephen, far from being an anomaly, fits neatly into a pre-existing "community of discourse" which should be much better known than it is (because the Christian Spiritualist community sort of imploded after the 1950s). Stephen is just one more dot in a line that's been being drawn from at least the mid-1800s.
The starting point for Stephen is the fact that we participants in one indivisible whole. And I think it was you that made such excellent Scripture quotes affirming this. We can read St John's gospel in this light Jn.17 " they may all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I in you, that they also may be in us" Stephen's prayer was, Lord, let me forget that I am me, let me know that I am with thee, let me not separate myself from thee, because I am me."
The more we transcend selfishness, the more we are conscious of the interdependence of All That Is, the more we will experience the Love that undergirds all. The material world is a comparatively illusionary projection of the Eternal, of which we are all citizens. Here on earth we have guidance towards love through pain. What I have written I believe to be true from the holistic point of view. From the sensory-physical point of view we will of course strive to make this a better world.
So it's not just me that feels a connection between Bird's work and ACIM (and I've already mentioned that feel a connection between ACIM and Stephen). I really hope someone at the ASPR has a copy of the text of Bird's four-volume set because it only seemed to have the one 1988 printing in paper form and I'd love to see it online - I only have the last volume, 'The New Dispensation'. It seems almost completely unknown otherwise and it would be a great pity if this work were to vanish. The preface claims a copy was stored in the ASPR archives, but the ASPR's website does not list Frances Bird anywhere.
I could quote some excerpts if anyone is interested, though perhaps it's getting a bit offtopic for this thread.
I have to confess that this sort of thing is quite vexing to me. I grew up in a very fundamentalist Christian sect and am still trying integrate what I have discovered over the last decade or so into my life. Stuff like this brings me full circle. I have no problem with the concept of Christ as an enlightened being, who quite possibly was far ahead of his time. But when spirits start appearing from the pages of the Gospels, identifying with a particular scribe and treating the Resurrection and Ascension as historical fact; then I have a problem.
Biblically, the point of Jesus' death and resurrection to pay for the sins of mankind. To me, this entails accepting the Creation account and the Fall to a large degree and believing in the God of the OT. This makes no sense whatsoever with what we know about the history of the earth as well as what what NDEs, etc tell us about the nature of God and the afterlife. What kind of cobbled up theology are these spirits peddling?
What kind of cobbled up theology are these spirits peddling?
I'm not familiar enough with the specific case you are referring to, to know if this applies ... but sometimes spirits have to speak in a language their listeners understand. If they said something that was grossly offensive, their listeners would reject everything they said and the spirits would not be able to accomplish anything by communicating with them. So sometimes the spirits use the framework their listeners believe in and try to use those concepts to explain and justify new ideas.
Unfortunately this can create confusion and seeming contradictions, but if you compared a high school textbook on Newtonian mechanics to a college textbook on relativity, you would also find contradictions. Just because they deliver a different message to different audiences doesn't mean there is something nefarious going on.
I'm sorry. I didn't mean to imply something nefarious was going on. Still, I'm not sure I agree with your assessment. I think most people who delve into this topic are open to new ideas. Strict literalists are are going to reject most of this initially anyway. Further, its not grossly offensive to lift out well known scientific tenets such as evolution, or to point out that a literal reading of the Bible is unsubstantiated. Neither did this stop Seth from pushing some rather bizarre ideas about Jesus and the crucifixion.
I also think its a little unfair with the comparison of Newton and relativity. Newton was accurate, insofar as he could be. To say the Jesus rose from the grave, and knowing he didn't, is another thing.
I'm not trying to be pedantic. I just think this subject gets glossed over.
One idea I see often in channelled communication though is that this material world apparently gives us MORE opportunities to change our beliefs toward a state of love (or to change them faster) than the afterlife does, even though the afterlife has fewer restrictions. Possibly because being restricted or confronted by things we otherwise wouldn't want to deal with, advances our learning?
That's mostly how I see it. While life there sounds fantastic, common advice from spirit is essentially to, "stay there and use your time wisely". In the physical, where input from the external environment is much more limited (often referred to as "the veil"), the opportunity for change and learning is great. Unresolved personal problems (spiritual, I suppose) are much harder to resolve there. Because of this, we can greatly improve our intellectual and spiritual environment there by way of smaller changes here.
In fact I suspect that this channel of extraordinary communication is very ordinary and widespread within the fields of human creativity. Several (secular, atheistic) novelists I've read have described the characters in their novel 'coming to an audition' in their minds and 'performing' a scene for them. And of course several key scientific breakthroughs have resulted from dreams and visionary experiences.
I think everyone receives ideas from an external source more often than we care to admit and this source is responsible for extraordinary advances in our art and culture. Spirit is capable of influencing others in the physical for a variety of reasons, some selfish, but my understanding is that most are helpful, especially where help is requested. The word "influencing" is important here because "causing" is apparently not an option, at least until the receiving individual desires something more than influence. Anyway, I think that simply being aware that it's possible to be influenced goes a long way toward receiving that kind of help should you want it.
I'm not sure that all of this quite follows. I mean I know that 'believing any part of the Bible requires accepting all of this very narrow and particular set of beliefs' is what fundamentalist churches TEACH, but I think they're not quite correct on that. I grew up in a very strict fundamentalist Evangelical-Pentecostal church myself - but also with a mother who had personally experienced NDEs and had a somewhat different perspective on theology - so I think I understand where you're coming from.
1. I believe Jesus of Nazareth was a real historical person.
2. I believe miracles of physical healing happen - I have a brother who sees them happen quite regularly in Pentecostal meetings that he leads. He himself is clear that he doesn't control them happening, but sometimes gets a mental impression that one is about to happen. I have no clue what the physical mechanism of healing is, but it seems clear to me that there is one and they can be either slow or very fast and dramatic. The dramatic ones are rare but can occur.
3. I believe communication between deceased human people and the living is possible. There seems to be a huge amount of evidence that it occurs, via mechanisms including dreams, automatic writing, full trance channelling, and sometimes apparitions or vision.
3. The Gospel accounts of the resurrection of Lazarus seem to fall into category 2: a particularly dramatic physical healing. Given the existence of 2, it doesn't strike me as impossible. The resurrection of Jesus seems to be more something like 3, since there seems to be an emphasis (by both the Gospel writers and even Paul later) that the 'resurrection body is a spiritual body', which makes it seem like a kind of mass apparition that went on for about a month or so. If we take the Gospel accounts at face value, while it seems like people could touch Jesus' body and he could eat, he could also appear and disappear and walk through walls, so it seems like it wasn't quite a physical body as we understand it. Again, if we take as granted the testimony from spirit communicators that a spiritual world exists and it's somehow 'more real' than our physical world, this doesn't seem surprising - just unique. The Gospel accounts may be distorted, but *similar* things have been reported, so it just seems like a matter of degree, not kind.
4. The whole thing about Jesus being 'the son of God' and 'the sacrificial lamb' and 'dying for our sins'... may or may not be the best way of understanding what his life and teaching was about. I think if we think about Jesus as just being a particularly enlightened person - ie, someone whose spiritual sense 'fully switched on' every moment of his life, in the way that say NDE experiencers or advanced meditators report feeling for just one moment and which can transform their entire life - I think some of this snaps into focus a bit more. At least it does for me.
It seems that in the spiritual realms there's much more of a sense of every moment being 'planned' by some cosmic agency, a desire to do good, and all of human life being shared. If Jesus was intensely spiritually aware, he would presumably have these feelings very strongly. At this level of spiritual experience or 'activation' I think just being in mental contact with other people who were struggling would count as 'suffering for our sins' - in the same way that, eg, a parent holding a sick child will intensely feel distressed by the suffering of the child. His particular experience while dying might have amplified this sense of connection with the human race, or it might just be that dying *is* the price paid for living as a human, and Jesus as an advanced spirit simply wished to be fully human.
I do believe that Jesus taught that his disciples should do what he did, which means that he didn't consider himself unapproachably unique (in the way that fundamentalists often do); rather that he was living and demonstrating some more general principle that's available to all humanity. If that's true, I think the idea of 'sacrifice' and 'suffering for others' sins' must be a general principle that anyone who engages in a life of love and service to others must experience. It sounds horrible and awful but it does have a kind of logic to it. If we reach out in a spirit of love beyond our own lives into the lives of others, at some point we must exceed our comfort zone, and at some point we will suffer pain or loss that we simply have to 'forgive' (in the sense of 'releasing a debt' - not requiring payment for).
Certainly there was nothing particularly special about being crucified in 1st century Palestine - it was a common Roman punishment for criminals AND rebels. To many of the Jewish insurgents and nationalists - as with Islamic rebels today - being crucified by an occupying military would have been seen as an *honour*, as dying for one's country, and this ideal of 'heroic death' informs a lot of the rather masochistic way the Gospels are written. Even the Greeks and Romans had that idea, that a true man should demonstrate it by dying messily for his ideals, in a way that perhaps we don't today. I think the difference with Jesus' death was that he wasn't a MILITARY rebel. To the extent that Jesus was special it may have been in that he *didn't* count himself special. and was simply open to God or loving spiritual energy at all times.
I feel that Jesus and 'the Cross' are actually opposite poles from one another. Crucifixion was a human invention and although Jesus suffered this, he didn't create it. I think he was a gentle person and a healer. I don't think he is responsible for a lot of the pain that various churches have unleashed in his name. In fact I think many churches cause him deep grief.
For me personally, I feel like A Course In Miracles has a very good chance of being a communication from the actual Jesus of Nazareth. I could be wrong. It's just that it has a particular 'resonance' with me that I find hard to describe. There's a simplicity about its message that I find very powerful but also, to me, lines up with the parts of the Gospel that seem closest to the direct teaching of Jesus: eg the Sermon on the Mount and the Gospel of John. The Jesus of ACIM is very clear that we ALL have a direct connection with God (who is neither male nor female, in fact is wider than 'all that is', but is apparently best understood by us as LOVE) and that Jesus is simply a 'fully awakened human' who is available to provide spiritual help if we ask for it. I could see how the Jesus of ACIM could actually be a teacher who could unite the world's religions - and also could be attacked by religious people as a heretic for being too universal and too accepting. The teaching of ACIM Jesus seems to have a lot in common with Buddhism, for instance - but seems to combine elements of Buddhist and Jewish thought in a way that could unite both.
I agree that a lot of the churches seem to spend far too much energy focusing on 'the specialness of Jesus' and using faith tests and creeds to divide people into 'saved and 'unsaved' tribes - rather than what Jesus (as described in the Gospels) TAUGHT, which seems to be the opposite of that.
This is a reason why I'm interested in NDEs and afterlife communications, because I think they can help balance the traditional religious perspective which has very often become far too narrow, and misinterpreted even the texts that have been handed down.
nice post... as for question 1, I lean in that direction as well. too much anecdotal spiritual evidence across various traditions (e.g. a number of yogis who never left India believed he was was real due their experiences). but I'm not dogmatic about it... could just be Christ consciousness working in some way we don't understand, or thru some timeline we can't really grock.
Thank you for answering my questions Michael, I will look up White Crow books and your blog.
I was talking to a friend on the phone and mentioned your Skeptiko interview, she said that your name rang a bell, and rang later to say that she had 'Into the Wider Dream' on her bookshelf so another little synchronicity.
see skeptiko shows with Joe Atwill. IMO, the evidence Josephus takes us in the other direction.
Conspiracy theories abound and each one looks amazingly realistic until one views the subsequent rebuttals. At the end of the day, it seems to be a case of which evidence do you prefer? You have, however forced me onto an interesting line of research. I need to look more into this.
It may take time. I'm using a library computer at the moment and have no sound but I will get around to it.
There isn't really enough detail in that short piece but I understand you being a little agnostic about it having looked at various sides. I think it might help if I can read Josephus work direct or at least the passages in question to get an idea of context. I just sense some bias in some of the interpretations and I wonder what the consensus view is.


Oh I guess congratulations are in order.
Spoke to a very annoying relative (living outside of the U.S.) who I thought called to congratulate me on getting into my #1.
Relative; Hi mauvespice, so whats the news?
R: Ok I see. So what program?
R: Didn't you say you wanted to do Neurosurgery?
M: When did I ever say that?
R: Okay so what do these Internal what was that again? people do?
R: 3 yrs of what?
R: Didn't you say that was 5 yrs.
R: Why would they pay you a salary to study?
M: I don't really open my books and study, I actually work close to 80 hours per week.
R: Oh so what is this now?
M: (getting close to suicidal) residency training.
R: Oh then I guess congratulations are in order!
Spoke to a very annoying relative (living outside of the U.S.) who I thought called to congratulate me on getting into my #1. Totally boxed my spirits.
And so the lesson here is that you should try to match harvard or your family will think you are a failure. I'm glad I could help.
Everyone else is a failure.
I'm sorry but that was not the intention of the post at all. I apologize if thats what it conveys.
Don't fret OP, your post was funny.
Thanks VMSmith. I seriously didn't predict the direction that this post has taken. I thought it was something light and funny. I generally don't post such situations, but I thought I would post something that I thought was funny amongst the other stressful and angry posts on the forum to try and lighten the atmosphere. But I do agree with the impression that it may have created. I'm the happiest IMer and didn't mean to offend anyone. Sorry guys.
Congrats Mauvespice-you're a failure like the rest of us. Enjoy the rest of fourth year before the madness begins in June/July.
mauvespice, ur post was hilarious!
congrats!!! you totally deserve it!!
The post was quite funny (bordering on the territory of dark humor). However, I think it was posted at a time when many on SDN were "inflamed" on matching into the 8th program on their list. When your 8th program is Duke/UCLA/Vandy, then most people have no reason to be pissed (yes, a bit dissapointed) (seriously, I love the people in Derm and Rad Onco who are pissed about matching into the 7th program on their list). And hence, I guess it didnt get the kind of "reception".
Oh yes, dont forget "functio laesa"...something increasingly predominant of SDN over the last few weeks.
Oh, I was being serious.
Unfortunately, this can be true for many applicants whose families are unfamiliar with medicine (and also with sarcasm).
To the OP: Awesome post. I loved it!
I still have family friend say, "So when are you going to be done with school?". I have to patiently explain that I finished med school 5 years ago...argh.
My favorite from my family is some variation of: UCSF? Really? I mean, I've heard of Harvard and Hopkins. UCSF is a good school? Seriously?
I echo your qualms- my parents constantly lament that I did not do the right thing by picking Cornell over MGH and Duke. In order to ease their pain, I told them that Duke isn't even an ivy league institute!
I get that too. There are only 2 kinds of relatives: ones that make you feel like a nerd who throws their life away by going to "school" till middle age and the other kind that can't get enough until you make it to Harvard.
Jubilee, I hear ya. Its harder when parents say these things, not like you can hang up and forget about it. Vandy is awesome, you'll do great there knowing you've picked it for the right reasons. If not, you have your entire life to move around.
I get the obligatory "Oh, Wash U?? We should buy you a rain coat and an umbrella for Seattle"
It completely echos the majority of conversations with my relatives. No matter how many times I explain to them the process of medical education or what residency is, it seems to go in one ear and out the other.
Them (for the hundredth time): "So when will you finally be a doctor?"
Me: "I am a doctor, since I finished medical school."
Them: "But didn't you say you are about to start your residency?"
Me: "Yes, but I will be treating patients as a doctor, although under supervision, and learning at the same time."
Them: "Oh, okay. So how many years do you have left."
Me: "Three. But if I decide to do a fellowship, then it will be another 1 to 4 years depending on what I do."
Them (shaking the head with a sad and mournful expression): "Yeah, that's a very long time. But once you become a doctor, then it will be all worth it."


#1- "The Weekend Winner." Last weekend, the 2 wide new releases that entered the box office arena made their "pre-Iron Man 3" debuts and entertained the masses. The #1 film of the weekend gained several dollars and pained the coffers of Oblivion as it took over the box office. In other box office news, however, the limited release MUD (starring Matthew McConaughey) just barely missed the Top Ten and came in at #11. Pretty impressive!
#2- "Star Wars Ep VII FANMADE Posters Definitely Impress & Speculate." As so many rumors, fake trailers and casting speculations hit the web for Star Wars Ep. VII and beyond, it is pretty safe to say that any news about the continuation of the franchise should be taken with a grain…nay…a BOULDER of salt!
Again…that was a FANMADE trailer. Nothing official. (We are far from any official trailer yet).
Star Wars: Episode VII is slated to release in 2015. And, while Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill and others are still in current negotiations to reprise their roles, nothing has officially come to light. It will be interesting to see the direction of the continuations. Use the Force to separate truth from fiction in any and all rumors until official announcements are made.
What do you think of the posters? Which one is your favorite?
#3- "Michael 'holds the rumors at' Bay" Michael Bay seems to want to "transform" his image in Hollywood, at least the image of ruining childhood favorites. Recently, he set out to clear up a few things about both the Transformers 4 film and the Ninja Turtles project. Fans may be a bit happier with what he had to say.
Previously titled "Ninja Turtles", Bay's film (directed by Jonathan Liebesman) about the "heroes in a half shell" has been RENAMED to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Starring Megan Fox, Alan Ritchson, Jeremy Howard, Pete Ploszek, Noel Fisher, Will Arnett in an unspecified role, and Danny Woodburn TMNT is expected to be in theaters on June 6, 2014.
Bay is directing Transformers 4 and expects it in theaters on June 27, 2014. Starring Mark Wahlberg, Jack Reynor, Nicola Peltz and Stanley Tucci.
I guess there's more than meets the eye (and ears) when it comes to Michael Bay.
Any thoughts on this report from Michael Bay?
Apparently, there has been a lot of negotiations in the past to bring this film back but to no avail until recently when 20th Century Fox struck a deal and now the film looks to have a green light. A new version is in the hopeful stages as the studio also hopes to bring a younger duo to the leading roles. Enter Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
The two seem to be a perfect pair for the roles. Currently, there is not even a director for the proposed remake, the deal was only recently struck for the film to go ahead. Look for more on this as details emerge.
Thoughts? Who else do you think should be in the remake?
Silver Linings Playbook– Nominated for eight Oscars, Silver Linings Playbook stars Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert DeNiro, Jackie Weaver, Chris Tucker, Julia Stiles and more in this story about a socially-challenged man and his quest at finding true love and happiness in life while surrounded by those with their own uniqueness. Finding the silver linings in the middle of life's problems, there is much to learn, love and laugh about in this amazing film that finally makes its way to blu-ray and is definitely worth a watch. Check out my review HERE.
Also releasing: Broken City, The Guilt Trip (Read my Review), The Scarlet Pimpernel and more.
Yeah, I saw the Michael Bay news; I don't know how much of that is truth and how much of it is spin (i.e., if they really were aliens, but they've done a rewrite and are now claiming they never were). But either way, it's a good thing.
'Guys and Dolls' sounds interesting. Joseph Gordon Levitt can play either Nathan or Skye. Though I think he'd rock Skye Masterson. Also must have J.K. Simmons (J. Jonah Jameson) as "Nicely Nicely"!!!
Oh sweet. I haven't seen Silver LInings Playbook yet. Will have to give it a go.
I bought SLP on blu-ray!
As for Star Wars, I'm so excited for the new films.
it will be interesting to see where they take the Star Wars franchise. Will they go with the books? or will they go a different direction?
Did you see how much Iron Man 3 made internationally? Wow!
I did! INSANE! Wow! I haven't read your review yet. sorry. I'm waiting to see it myself, but, good news…I get to see it in IMAX so I'm excited about that!
Thanks for sharing the fan made posters for Star Wars Episode VII. I like the one with the Darth Vader helmet the best.
Thanks for stopping by and seeing them. I've been on vacation and will be back with all the great content here shortly!


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Q: How to ignore one vulnerability in JFrog Xray I am using JFrog Xray to scan for security issues in my project. There is a vulnerability issue CVE-2016-1000027 with critical level need to resolve. But I want JFrog ignore this vulnerability issue when Xray scan.
Anyone who know how to help me ignore it?
Thanks.

A: Please follow the official JFrog Xray Ignore Rules. It has details on this.
Note that an ignore rule should be a temporary flag until a resolution is found. Keep your software safe!

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Беатріс Гелен Уорслі () — канадська комп'ютерна вчена, яка була першою жінкою-інформатиком у Канаді. Вона отримала ступінь доктора філософії у Кембриджського університеті з Морісом Вілксом, який був радником. Вона написала свою першу програму для роботи на EDSAC, була співавтором першого компілятора для Ferranti Mark 1 в Торонто, написала численні статті з інформатики та викладала інженерію в Університеті Квінз та Університеті Торонто понад 20 років до своєї смерті в 50 років

Раннє життя
Беатріс народилася 18 жовтня 1921 року у родині Джоела та Беатріс Марі (Трінкер). Джоел народився в 1887 році в родині робітника в Ештон-Андер-Лайн, Манчестер . Материні дідусь та бабуся  заснували текстильну фабрику в Ся, Мексика, у 1850-х роках. У 1908 році Джоель і Беатріс Марі вирішують переїхали працювати на цю фабрику. У 1917 року повстанці знищили завод. Через цю ситуацію Джоел влаштувався на роботу в Ель-Сальто на заводи CIMSA групи Rio Grande, там він досягає посади генерального менеджера.

У 1920 році Беатріс Марі народила сина, Чарльза Роберта, а наступного року вже і Беатріс Гелен. Діти навчалися вдома з міркувань безпеки. Також через це вони майже не спілкувалися із сусідами. У 1929 році Джоел перевіз сім'ю до Торонто, щоб забезпечити своїм дітям кращу освіту. Чарльз вступив до коледжу Верхньої Канади, тоді як Беатріс почала навчання в державній школі Брауна, проте в 1935 році перейшла до школи Єпископа Страчана  .

Єпископ Страхан запропонував два напрями, Беатріс вирішила записалася на складніші курси підготовки до університету. Вона досягла великого успіху, оскільки директор заявив, що вона була однією з найкращих учениць його школи. Беатріс закінчила школу в 1939 році з нагородами по математиці, природничих наук і за найвищу загальну оцінку отримала нагороду від генерал-губернатора.

Бакалаврат
За відмінне начання Ворслі змогла отримати стипендію Бернсайда в галузі науки від Трініті-коледжу, що є частиною Університету Торонто, і почала навчання там з вересні 1939 року. Її високі оцінки принесли їй першу наукову стипендію Олександра Т. Фултона.

На другому курсі Ворслі вирішує перевелася на відділення математики та фізики, здебільшого на прикладну програму, а не на теоретичну. На третьому курсі Ворслі отримала стипендію Джеймса Скотта з математики та фізики. Закінчивши у 1944 році факультет математики та фізики зі ступенем бакалавра мистецтв, вона щороку отримувала найвищу оцінку на кожному курсі.

Служба військового часу
Після завершенню навчання Ворслі вирішила вступити на службу в Жіночу Королівську канадську військово-морську службу, більш відому як «Крапижник». Після базової підготовки в HMCS Conestoga  в Галті (сьогодні відомий як Кембридж, Онтаріо ), вона була призначена до Військово- морської дослідницької установи у Галіфаксі . Спочатку їй було доручено вивчати оборону гавані, але потім Ворслі було поручено розмагнічування та наведення торпед.

Після закінчення Друга світова війна, Ворслі була єдиною Реном у NRE, яка вирішила залишитися на службі. У вересні 1945 року їй було надано звання лейтенанта і переведено на новий дослідницький проєкт з корозії корпусу. Протягом наступного року вона провела 150 днів у морі, багато з них на тральщику NRE класу Bangor, HMCS Quinte, тодіж вона і встановила рекорд для Wrens, який і досі закріплений за ними.  Здебільшого це відбувалося під час жахливих умов канадської атлантичної зими, що заслужило їй повагу екіпажу, виконуючи те, що вона сама називала «чоловічою роботою». Офіційно демобілізована в серпні 1946 року  .

Аспірант MIT
Відразу після Ренсів, Ворслі була прийнята на однорічну магістерську програму з математики та фізики до Массачусетського технологічного інституту. В даному інституті серед її занять був курс з фізики твердого тіла, який тоді викладав Ласло Тіса, а також курс про підсилювачі зі зворотним зв'язком і сервомеханізми, галузь, у якій MIT був світовим лідером.

Вона завершила свою дисертація на тему «Математичний огляд обчислювальних пристроїв з додатком щодо аналізу помилок диференціальних аналізаторів ». Її найковим керівником був Генрі Волмана, співробітника відомої Радіаційної лабораторії Массачусетського технологічного інституту. Ця стаття охоплювала майже всі обчислювальні машини, які  існували в той період. Серед багатьох обговорюваних машин були Harvard Mark I і Mark II, декілька механічних і електромеханічних обчислювальних машин IBM, релейні цифрові комп'ютери Bell Labs, ENIAC, EDVAC, машина IAS, Whirlwind I і II та EDSAC . Додаток охоплює ряд систем диференціального аналізатора та розглядає їхні джерела помилок. Це залишається одним із найдокладніших описів ранніх обчислень.

Обчислювальний центр в Торонто
Після завершення дисертації Ворслі вирішила повернулася до Канади. Вона сказала своїй родині, що майбутнє за комп'ютерами. На жаль, у той час в Канаді не було обчислювальної індустрії, і тому вона вимушена була влаштувалася на роботу в Національну дослідницьку раду Канади (NRC), де працювала у відділі аеродинаміки.

Протягом цього періоду Університет Торонто роздумував над тим, щоб відкрити комп'ютерного відділу як дослідницького центру в університеті та як сервісного бюро, що продавало час на машинах комерційним і урядовим користувачам. У вересні 1947 року NRC надав перші кошти на придбання двох механічних калькуляторів з перфокартами IBM і двох помічників для їх експлуатації. Коли Ворслі почула про ці події в Університеті Торонто, то приклала усі зусилля або подав заявку на посаду і працювати в них. Вона приєдналася до нового відділу в січні 1948 року  .

Кембридж
Коли робота над аналізатором була завершена, Ворслі та Стенлі були відправлені до Великобританії, щоб дізнатися все про архітектуру EDSAC, який тоді розробляли в Кембриджській математичній лабораторії Кембриджського університету. Вони прибули, але розробка машини майже була завершену, і допомогли запустити її в роботу для першого тестового запуску 6 травня 1949 року. Першою програмою, яку успішно запустили на цій машині, була самк програма Ворслі. Вона допомогла написати програму для обчислення квадратів  , і пізніше вона зібрала цю та низку подібних програм в одну з найперших статей на цю тему, Демонстрацію EDSAC .

Наступного місяця в Кембриджі відбулася нарада на тему обчислювальних машин, і Ворслі підготувала доповідь про програму, яка обчислює квадрати, і про нову, яка записує прості числа . У звіті містився зразок вихідних даних, а також опис коду та того, як він запускається на машині.  Це було надруковано в матеріалах конференції, а роками пізніше Брайан Ренделл узяв його для своєї відомої книги 1973 року «Походження цифрових комп'ютерів» . Це зробило Ворслі відомою у сфері обчислювальної техніки.

Пізніше Ворслі вирішила почати писати докторську роботу в коледжі Ньюнем. Під час роботи в лабораторії вона також відвідувала курси квантової фізики разом Полем Діраком, Джоном Леннард-Джонсом і Ніколасом Кеммером, теорії чисел разом Альбертом Інгамом і, мабуть, найголовніше, числового аналізу з Дугласом Гартрі . Вона почала писати свою дисертацію під керівництвом Гартрі, який за збігом обставин також керував ще одною канадкою, Шарлоттою Фішер .

FERUT і Transcode
Улітку 1948 року Обчислювальний центр звернувся до NRC з планами створити копію цифрового комп'ютера Mark 6 Bell Labs на основі вже існуючого. Після отримання дозволу, вони звернулися до Northern Electric, щоб отримати креслення його проєкту, але їм сказали, що ліцензійний збір буде складати 25 000 доларів США (зараз приблизно $300,000).

Університет та NRC разом запланували амбітну програму зі створенням першокласного комп'ютера з використання NRC, Радою оборонних досліджень та промисловістю. Будівництво, відоме як UTEC, почалося в 1951 році, але швидко зіткнулося з серйозними проблемами через ненадійність систем пам'яті трубок Вільямса . Лише наприкінці того ж року система нарешті стала достатньо надійною для використання. На цьому етапі Центр звернувся до NRC за фінансуванням для завершення системи з паралельним математичним блоком.

AECL дедалі більше засмучувалися відсутністю придатної машини, і коли вони почули, що NRC звернулися з проханням продовжити розвиток UTEC, було припушено, що кошти краще витратити на купівлю повної машини. Беннет Льюїс з AECL знав, що Ferranti побудував повну машину Ferranti Mark 1 для аналога AECL у Великій Британії, Управління з атомної енергії Сполученого Королівства, лише щоб залишити його, коли новий уряд скасував його фінансування. Це було доступно лише за 30 000 доларів ( equivalent to $307,826 у 2021 році), приблизно стільки ж, скільки було потрібно для першого раунду фінансування для розширеного UTEC.

Восени 1953 року Ворслі та Паттерсон Юм почали розробку нової комп'ютерної мови для машини, відомої як Transcode.  Це було схоже на Autocode, який розробляв Алік Ґленні з Манчестерського університету для тієї самої машини, але використовував переваги кількох нотаток дизайну Mark I, щоб створити швидшу та дещо простішу мову. Однією з головних переваг було перетворення десяткової системи в двійкову і назад, що дозволяло програмістам вводити числа в десятковій формі.

Королевський університет
Незважаючи на вражаючі дипломи від Кембриджа, низку поважних робіт та кілька першості у галузі, Ворслі неодноразово пропускали для просування в Університеті Торонто. Лише в 1960 році її підвищили з штатного співробітника до доцента, а лише в 1964 році її підвищили до доцента фізики та інформатики. У порівнянні з іншими членами перших днів Обчислювального центру, вона отримала набагато менше визнання.

У 1965 році Ворслі було запропонували роботу в Університеті Квінз, де вона запустила свій новий комп'ютерний центр на базі IBM 1620 . У Квінз її обов'язки зводилися більше до викладання та займали більшу частину її часу до 1971 року.  У вересні того ж року, після 20 років роботи в галузі, вона взяла відпустку на факультеті прикладної аналітика та інформатика в Університеті Ватерлоо . 8 травня 1972 року у Ватерлоо Ворслі перенесла смертельний серцевий напад.

Нагороди
Ворслі було посмертно нагороджено премією Канадської асоціації комп'ютерних наук за життєві досягнення в галузі комп'ютерних наук.

Примітки

Цитування

Бібліографія

Мексиканські емігранти до Канади
Викладачі Торонтського університету
Випускники Торонтського університету
Персоналії:Холодна війна
Випускники Ньюнем-Коледжу (Кембридж)
Народились 1921
Померли 1972
Канадські інформатики
Сторінки з неперевіреними перекладами

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Serbia to request troop deployment in Kosovo
As ethnic Albanian forces crack down on the province's Serb minority, Belgrade expects NATO to ignore its concerns
Serbia will request that its forces be deployed to Kosovo amid an Albanian-led crackdown on the province's Serb population, President Aleksandar Vucic said on Saturday. Vucic added that he expects Kosovo's NATO backers to reject the request.
"We will send a request to the KFOR commander to ensure the deployment of members of the army and police of the Republic of Serbia to the territory of Kosovo and Metohija," said Vucic, referring to the NATO-led Kosovo Force mission in the province.
Under Resolution 1244 of the United Nations Security Council, Serbia has a right to send military and police personnel to Kosovo in certain situations, including in the event that the "peaceful and normal life" of its population there becomes threatened.
Kosovo has been occupied by NATO forces since the alliance intervened to drive Yugoslav troops out of the province in 1999. Given this occupation, and Kosovo's declaration of independence in 2008, Vucic said that KFOR will likely reject his request, even though "it is an obligation for KFOR."
Kosovo situation 'on brink of war' – Serbia
Ethnic Albanian authorities in Kosovo sent hundreds of police officers into the majority-Serb northern district of Kosovska Mitrovica on Thursday, a violation of a 2013 deal between Belgrade and Pristina. Kosovo police seized 42,000 liters of wine from a Serb-run winery in Velika Hoca the same day, and sent riot police units into a kindergarten in Leposavic a day earlier.
The incidents are the latest flare-ups since Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti announced a ban on Serbian license plates in July, citing a 2013 agreement governing relations between Belgrade and Pristina. Serbia considers the agreement a step towards recognizing Kosovo's independence, and has not ratified it.
Vucic claimed on Saturday that Kosovo plans to submit an application next week for membership of the European Union. He said that Serbia opposes this plan, as "only sovereign and independent states can request admission," of which Kosovo is neither. Moreover, five EU countries, including Spain and Greece, do not recognize Kosovo as an independent state.


The Goa Experience is part of Serenity Holidays, a privately owned, independent holiday company also offering a number of other destinations, including The Gambia, Cape Verde, Corsica and Sardinia.
In recent years a mix of further acquisitions and organic growth has seen the introduction of Cape Verde, Senegal, Sardinia, Sicily and for 2015 we were delighted to add Goa to the Serenity Holidays portfolio.
As an independent specialist company, we pride ourselves on our attention to detail, customer care and treating clients as individuals, both before you travel and whilst you are on holiday.
Find out more about why to book with The Goa Experience here.


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Капельница —  микрорайон посёлка Иноземцево в Ставропольском крае.

Расположение
Капельница расположена у восточных склонов горы Бештау и Машук примерно в 7 км к северо-востоку от центра Пятигорска. В 1,5 км западнее посёлка проходит автодорога Р217 «Кавказ». В посёлке расположено озеро Капка — памятник природы краевого значения.

История
В посёлке ранее изготавливали смеси ядохимикатов, что плохо сказалось на экологии.

Инфраструктура
Образование
Основная общеобразовательная школа. Открыта 1 сентября 1961 года как начальная школа.

Здравоохранение
Медицинскую помощь оказывает фельдшерско-акушерский пункт.

Улицы
В посёлке расположены следующие улицы:
 Аллейная
 Виноградная
 Дивная
 Зори Машука
 Кооперативная
 Красивая
 Мичурина
 Молодёжная
 Орджоникидзе
 Островского
 Отрадная
 Рабочая
 Светлая
 Северная
 Спортивная
 Студенческий городок
 Февральская
 Фрунзе
 Центральная
 Южная

Примечания

Железноводск
Микрорайоны городов Ставропольского края


Below I have listed a number of resources you can utilize to help determine classic car prices. While none of these are the "be all, end all" authoritative resource, each of them can give you a guideline for classic car values.
No two of them are likely to agree exactly on the value of a particular vehicle, but several of them averaged together should give you a fairly accurate idea of what a given vehicle is likely to bring at an auction. Keep in mind, these are only "guides", and it is up to you to accurately appraise the condition of a vehicle you are looking at. The average enthusiast has a tendency to give a vehicle a higher condition rating than an expert appraiser or collector would, because the expert knows what details to look for when trying to determine classic car prices.
NADA has officially replaced what was previously the most common collector vehicle price guide, the Manheim Gold Book. NADA offers free online lookup of individual vehicles, or you can purchase a paper copy of a single guide to carry with you. You can also buy a yearly subscription that gives you three updated paper guides per year.
Hemmings Motor News is definitely a well-known name in the collector vehicle hobby, and they publish a bi-monthly Collectible Vehicle Value Guide for vehicles manufactured in 1946 or later. It is a pocket-size paper copy that is perfect for taking with you to an auction, and is available individually or by annual subscription.
Hagerty's Cars That Matter is a classic car values resource that bases their prices on vehicles that have sold at auction, and provides this data through printed books, mobile access, or both. They are a leading provider of Classic Car Insurance and their guide is updated three times per year. It lists post-war (1946 and later) vehicles only.
Collector Car Market Review also offers collector vehicle values online at no cost, and a bi-monthly subscription for a paper copy of their classic car price guide. They also have begun offering offering a digital version of their "Collector Car Market Review", available by online subscription.
Old Cars Weekly News and Marketplace offers several ways to get classic car values. They can provide a detailed report for a particular model for a small fee. You can get unlimited reports by becoming a member for a month or for one year. They also publish a bi-monthly old car price guide you can get by subscription. And of course, you can also subscribe to their weekly publication.
CollectorCarPriceTracker.com is a relative newcomer to the scene. They provide actual eBay auction data, average prices, details on the vehicles, and shows you the actual auction page with pictures. The first three searches are free, but after that you have to pay a fee. They have three day, one month, and yearly access packages with unlimited searches during the time frame you purchase.
Those are the most popular resources available today for determining classic car prices. All of them base their values on recent auction sales, and they each have a condition rating guide. If you are actively seeking to purchase or sell a collector vehicle, I would highly recommend taking a look at several current price guides to get the best idea of a reasonable value. Classic car prices can be quite volatile in some cases, so it is important that you have up to date information.


The secret is out. The world-famous windmills, whitewashed Cycladic architecture, picturesque town, sparkling turquoise waters and legendary parties have earned Mykonos its position as one of Europe's hottest holiday destinations.
With flights from Athens in under half an hour and several ferries arriving daily from nearby islands, Paros and Santorini, travel to Mykonos has never been easier. Escape the crowds at Santa Marina, A Luxury Collection Resort, Mykonos. The first luxury hotel on the island, Santa Marina has an unparalleled reputation of exceptional service, understated glamour and uninterrupted relaxation.
Overlooking the gorgeous Ornos Bay, Santa Marina Resort & Villas, crucially commands the only private beach on Mykonos, making its crystal-clear, aquamarine waters and white silk sand, a genuine sanctuary from the public eye. Pure bliss!
One of the latest addition of the resort is the luxurious Oasis Pool & Lounge where you can relax and sunk in your sunbed while admiring breathtaking views to the Aegean Sea, in an exotic ambiance.
The local favourite, Agios Sostis beach, is the place to visit to completely switch-off.
Top tip when visitin Mykonos Chora: give yourself plenty of time to wander; getting lost in the narrow stone streets is half the fun!
Leave the stress of daily life behind and experience the ancient ritual of the Hammam in Gingko Spa. Tension just evaporates during this cleansing full body treatment.
Little Venice at dusk is one of the island's most popular attractions. For a guaranteed seat as the drama unfolds, arrive at least an hour before sunset.
Top tip: enjoy a unique sunset experience from the grounds of Boni's Windmill. It's worth the short walk up the hill for this breath-taking panoramic view of Chora. Watch the sun slip below the horizon as the sounds of the evening float up from the town below.
After dark, Santa Marina's chic Buddha Bar comes alive. Greek and Asian fusion cuisine is served alongside tantalizing cocktails and hypnotic beats from the bar's resident DJs. The world-class food and relaxed atmosphere attracts locals from across the island and entices visiting yachts to drop anchor in the bay. Top tip: your visit isn't complete until you experience their signature black cod!


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ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN - NOVEMBER 16: Running Back Elijah Collins #24 of the Michigan State Spartans runs from defender Lavert Hill #24 of the Michigan Wolverines during the second half of a college football game at Michigan Stadium on November 16, 2019 in Ann Arbor, MI. (Photo by Aaron J. Thornton/Getty Images) /
ST. LOUIS – 1986: Vince Coleman of the St. Louis Cardinals runs the bases during an MLB game at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri during the 1986 season. (Photo by Ron Vesely/MLB Photos via Getty Images) /
Vince Coleman played just six games in a Tigers uniform in 1997, but he's a name who makes sense for this list. For those who may not remember Coleman, he was easily one of the fastest baseball players of all time. He stole more than 100 bases in each of his first three seasons in the big leagues. He led all of baseball in steals in each of his first six seasons. He still holds the record for most consecutive stolen bases without getting caught, with 50. So it's easy to see him excelling as a wide receiver, running back, or defensive back in college football.
Except, no. Vince Coleman was a kicker. Playing for the Division I-AA Florida A&M Rattlers, Coleman helped win a national title in 1978, kicked the game-winning field goal in a stunning upset over the Miami Hurricanes in 1979, and was named an all-conference player in both 1980 and 1981. His dream, apparently, was to follow in the footsteps of his cousin Greg Coleman, who was an NFL punter for 12 years. But NFL teams wanted him to use his speed:
"Coleman used one of his legs for something other than running; he was the football team's punter. After college, he signed with the Washington Redskins, but the team wanted him to utilize his speed as a wide receiver. Coleman wanted to remain a punter, however, so he left the team and started playing for one of the Cardinals' minor league affiliates."
Now that's a man who loves to kick.


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Spring 2017 Updates
The greatest gift of all is life. Richard St. Barbe Baker
Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area and West Swale Wetlands in the fog
New updates about the Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area.
Jeff Hehn made a facebook posting: "As mentioned at the meeting last night [Wed March 29, 2017]- here is the link to the photo album of accumulating issues since the last cleanup: . Anyone should be able to add to the album if you see an issue that needs addressing."
"Also I, [Jeff Hehn] have been logging the location to a google map as posted on the Users of Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area facebook page Additionally the phenomenal RSBBAA – Vehicle restrictions are pictured online!"
This is a fantastic to update the news about the Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area, thank you to Jeff Hehn, ambassador of the Fatlanders Fatbike Brigade FFBB. However, that being said, it is arrggghh to see the devastation.
"In the wealth of the woods since the world began The trees have offered their gifts to man." – Henry van Dyke
The greatest gift of all is life. For millions of years the trees were paving the way for life on this planet, absorbing impurities, clearing up the foetid atmosphere and the swamp breath, absorbing carbon dioxide and giving off the life giving oxygen that
we breathe." ~Richard St. Barbe Baker
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This website is about the Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area - an urban regional park of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. The hosts are the stewards of the afforestation area. The afforestation area received its name in honour of the great humanitarian, Richard St. Barbe Baker. Richard St. Barbe Baker (9 October 1889 – 9 June 1982) was an English forester, environmental activist and author, who contributed greatly to worldwide reforestation efforts. As a leader, he founded an organization, Men of the Trees, still active today, whose many chapters carry out reforestation internationally. {Wikipedia} Email is StBarbeBaker AT yahoo.com to reach the Stewards of the Richard St. Barbe Baker Afforestation Area View all posts by stbarbebaker
Author stbarbebakerPosted on March 30, 2017 September 8, 2019 Categories newsTags barriers, Clean up, Fatlanders, Fatlanders Fatbike Brigade, FFBB, George Genereux Urban REgional Park, issues, Jeff Hehn, map, MEETING, Meewasin Valley Authority, MVA, news, refuse, Richard St. Barbe Baker, Richard St. Barbe Baker AFforestation ARea, Richard St. Barbe Baker Park, Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, trash, updates, vehicle restrictions
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New PLMS Math Teacher Greg McLaren
Greg McLaren is PLMS's new 7th/8th-grade math teacher. Greg replaces Ms. Brown who has moved on to a new opportunity as an elementary counselor. Greg comes to PLMS after spending 36 years in the banking industry, the last 24 were at the FHL bank of Topeka. After retiring Greg wanted to give back to the next generation so he entered the transition to teaching program at Fort Hays State University. He spent last year teaching math at Eisenhower Middle School in Topeka. He wanted to come to Perry because of our reputation of great students, and a great school. He is looking forward to meeting our staff and students, and attending activities and getting to know parents and community members.
Greg grew up in Woodbridge VA and graduated from Woodbridge High School. He went on to earn a BS in finance from Virginia Tech and an MBA from Pittsburg State University. He has been married to his wife Amy for 30+ years. They have a daughter, Kristen, who teaches at Jardine Middle School in Topeka. They have one grandson who is 18 months. His hobbies include playing golf, bowling, and pickleball. He is also enjoying his new role as a granddad.
When you see Mr. McLaren next year make sure to give him a big Perry-Lecompton welcome.


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package org.asteriskjava.manager.event;

import org.asteriskjava.util.AstState;

/**
 * Abstract base class providing common properties for HangupEvent, NewChannelEvent and
 * NewStateEvent.
 *
 * @author srt
 * @version $Id$
 */
public abstract class AbstractChannelStateEvent extends AbstractChannelEvent
{
    /**
     * Serializable version identifier.
     */
    static final long serialVersionUID = 0L;

    private Integer channelState;
    private String channelStateDesc;
    private String connectedlinename;
    private String connectedlinenum;

    protected AbstractChannelStateEvent(Object source)
    {
        super(source);
    }

    public String getConnectedlinename() {
        return connectedlinename;
    }

    public void setConnectedlinename(String connectedlinename) {
        this.connectedlinename = connectedlinename;
    }

    public String getConnectedlinenum() {
        return connectedlinenum;
    }

    public void setConnectedlinenum(String connectedlinenum) {
        this.connectedlinenum = connectedlinenum;
    }

    /**
     * Returns the new state of the channel.

     * For Asterisk versions prior to 1.6 (that do not send the numeric value) it is derived
     * from the descriptive text.
     *
     * @return the new state of the channel.
     * @since 1.0.0
     */
    public Integer getChannelState()
    {
        return channelState == null ? AstState.str2state(channelStateDesc) : channelState;
    }

    /**
     * Sets the new state of the channel.
     *
     * @param channelState the new state of the channel.
     * @since 1.0.0
     */
    public void setChannelState(Integer channelState)
    {
        this.channelState = channelState;
    }

    /**
     * Returns the new state of the channel as a descriptive text.

     * The following states are used:

     *

     *
Down

     *
Rsrvd

     *
OffHook

     *
Dialing

     *
Ring

     *
Ringing

     *
Up

     *
Busy

     *
Dialing Offhook (since Asterik 1.6)

     *
Pre-ring (since Asterik 1.6)

     *

     *
     * @return the new state of the channel as a descriptive text.
     * @since 1.0.0
     */
    public String getChannelStateDesc()
    {
        return channelStateDesc;
    }

    /**
     * Sets the new state of the channel as a descriptive text.
     *
     * @param channelStateDesc the new state of the channel as a descriptive text.
     * @since 1.0.0
     */
    public void setChannelStateDesc(String channelStateDesc)
    {
        this.channelStateDesc = channelStateDesc;
    }

    /**
     * Returns the new state of the channel as a descriptive text.

     * This is an alias for {@link @getChannelStateDesc}.
     *
     * @return the new state of the channel as a descriptive text.
     * @deprecated as of 1.0.0, use {@link #getChannelStateDesc()} instead or even better switch to numeric
     *             values as returned by {@link #getChannelState()}.
     */
    @Deprecated public String getState()
    {
        return channelStateDesc;
    }

    /**
     * Sets the new state of the channel as a descriptive text.

     * The state property is used by Asterisk versions prior to 1.6.
     *
     * @param state the new state of the channel as a descriptive text.
     */
    public void setState(String state)
    {
        this.channelStateDesc = state;
    }
}


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'Cloverfield' helmer traces Swedish tale
7:17 PM PDT 9/24/2008 by Jay A. Fernandez , Borys Kit
Matt Reeves to write and direct horror remake
"Cloverfield" director Matt Reeves has signed to write and direct the horror remake "Let the Right One In" for Overture Films and Hammer Films.
The Swedish horror film, "Lat den ratte komma in," about a bullied boy whose desire for revenge becomes intertwined with his growing love for a girl who happens to be a vampire, began showing at festivals at the beginning of the year. Hammer Films picked up the remake rights in May after the film won the best narrative feature award at the Tribeca Film Festival.
The original film's source material is a bestselling novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist.
"I was immediately taken by both the novel and the Swedish film of 'Let the Right One In,' which are just so unique," Reeves said. "I found them not only terrifying but incredibly moving, and I am very excited about adapting them into an American context."
The recently revived Hammer Films -- a British horror powerhouse in the 1950s and '60s -- intends to remake some of its own classic films in addition to acquiring other original properties. "Right One" represents the first film in a new two-picture partnership between Overture and HS Media, the parent company of Hammer and Spitfire Pictures.
Hammer's Simon Oakes and Spitfire's Guy East and Nigel Sinclair will produce. Spitfire's Alex Brunner and Tobin Armbrust will exec produce along with John Ptak, Philip Elway and Fredrik Malmberg. John Nordling and Carl Molinder of EFTI will also be involved as producers.
Overture's Sean Furst, executive vp production and acquisitions, will oversee production for the studio, which hopes to release the film next year.
Magnolia Pictures will release the Swedish version on Oct. 24.
Reeves, who is repped by WMA, co-wrote and directed "The Pallbearer," co-wrote "The Yards" and co-created and exec produced TV's "Felicity." He is prepping the thriller "The Invisible Woman," a script he wrote and will direct for producer J.J. Abrams at Bad Robot.
Jay A. Fernandez
Borys Kit
THRnews@thr.com borys_kit


The beginning of the operation of the home for children handicapped in physical or mental development called "Mary Our Hope" prompted the inclusion also of the sick children and of the children with difficulties in their physical or mental development in the god-parenthood programme.
The difficult economic and social situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina had an effect on the health care system as well. Public medical institutions and hospitals have not been reconstructed for years, the equipment has become obsolete, and the medical staff faces the lack of the basic medical supplies every day. At the same time private clinics and policlinics are being opened, where all services have to be paid for.
Such situation has brought the parents of the children handicapped in their physical or mental development as well as those whose children suffer from chronic, incurable diseases, into a very difficult position.
The health care system covers only a small portion of the needs of these little patients, which include constant care, therapy, medicines, aids, personal hygiene supplies.
Most parents in their everyday struggle for their daily bread are not in position to provide all the necessities for their sick children, so in responding to their calls for help we have included them in the god-parenthood programme as well.
To help one of such children really means to help the whole family carry the heavy cross and accept the sick child with love.


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The president of the Calgary and District Labour Council (CDLC) is raising concerns about the attendance records of one Calgary Board of Education (CBE) trustee.
Alexander Shevalier says documents obtained through the provincial Freedom of Information Act show that Mike Bradshaw, a first-time school board trustee for Wards 12 and 14, has missed 36.6 per cent of school board meetings.
Bradshaw could not be reached for comment by press time.
Shevalier said that nothing prompted the request for information, stating that curiosity spurred the request.
The CBE's website outlines the role of the Board of Trustees as "establishing expectations for organizational results and quality operational performance and then monitoring actual performance against those expectations." CBE trustees earn a mean salary of $47,142.86 a year, according to the CBE's compensation disclosure.